India Literacy Rate

As per information furnished by the Department of School Education and Literacy (Ministry of Education), the drop-out rate is continuously decreasing at all levels of Education including Primary, Upper Primary and Secondary.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur Thursday said that the literacy rate in the state went up to 83 per cent from just 4.8 per cent in 1948.

India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on COVID-19 due to the country's high internet penetration rate, increasing social media consumption and users' lack of internet literacy, according to a new study.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das: Reserve Bank will continue to address the concerns of over-indebtedness of micro finance borrowers.

In a first, Assam is coming up with more than 100 high schools at tea gardens across the state to improve literacy and control dropout rate within the tea garden labour community, the state government has said.

With 96.2 per cent literacy, Kerala has once again emerged as the most literate state in the country, while Andhra Pradesh featured at the bottom with a rate of 66.4 per cent, showed a report based on National Statistical Office (NSO) survey.

According to the study, after Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent, followed by Uttarkhand's 87.6 per cent, Himachal Pradesh's 86.6 per cent and Assam's at 85.9 per cent.

According to the study, after Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent, followed by Uttarkhand's 87.6 per cent, Himachal Pradesh's 86.6 per cent and Assam's at 85.9 per cent.

The enrollment rate for girls stands at 23.5 per cent and for boys, it is 25.4 per cent at Higher Education level.

Kerala, which prides itself on a near-perfect literacy rate, has landed in a controversy after a school textbook was found to be spreading misinformation on sexual health education.

Kerala, declared the first complete literate state in the country over two decades ago, is now gearing up for a second mass literacy movement to eradicate illiteracy totally by covering all left over sections.

As technology becomes central to the government's plan for improving standards of governance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for rapidly expanding the concept of digital literacy in rural areas, cautioning that a digital divide would otherwise create serious problems.

The Government of India will celebrate the International Literacy Day tomorrow at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. September 8 was declared as the International literacy Day by UNESCO in 1966. The theme for this year's International Literacy Day is 'Literacy in Digital World'.

Muslims are the "educationally most disadvantaged community" among the minorities, a panel formed by a government-funded agency has said, advocating a three-tier model to tackle the educational backwardness. The panel has recommended that the communities be empowered through a three-tier model of institutions--central schools, community colleges an...

An internal audit by the skills development ministry indicated that nearly 7 per cent of all training centres under the 'skill India' initiative, funded by the government, did not exist

As per information furnished by the Department of School Education and Literacy (Ministry of Education), the drop-out rate is continuously decreasing at all levels of Education including Primary, Upper Primary and Secondary.

Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Jai Ram Thakur Thursday said that the literacy rate in the state went up to 83 per cent from just 4.8 per cent in 1948.

India produced the largest amount of social media misinformation on COVID-19 due to the country's high internet penetration rate, increasing social media consumption and users' lack of internet literacy, according to a new study.

RBI Governor Shaktikanta Das: Reserve Bank will continue to address the concerns of over-indebtedness of micro finance borrowers.

In a first, Assam is coming up with more than 100 high schools at tea gardens across the state to improve literacy and control dropout rate within the tea garden labour community, the state government has said.

With 96.2 per cent literacy, Kerala has once again emerged as the most literate state in the country, while Andhra Pradesh featured at the bottom with a rate of 66.4 per cent, showed a report based on National Statistical Office (NSO) survey.

According to the study, after Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent, followed by Uttarkhand's 87.6 per cent, Himachal Pradesh's 86.6 per cent and Assam's at 85.9 per cent.

According to the study, after Kerala, Delhi has the best literacy rate at 88.7 per cent, followed by Uttarkhand's 87.6 per cent, Himachal Pradesh's 86.6 per cent and Assam's at 85.9 per cent.

The enrollment rate for girls stands at 23.5 per cent and for boys, it is 25.4 per cent at Higher Education level.

Kerala, which prides itself on a near-perfect literacy rate, has landed in a controversy after a school textbook was found to be spreading misinformation on sexual health education.

Kerala, declared the first complete literate state in the country over two decades ago, is now gearing up for a second mass literacy movement to eradicate illiteracy totally by covering all left over sections.

As technology becomes central to the government's plan for improving standards of governance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi called for rapidly expanding the concept of digital literacy in rural areas, cautioning that a digital divide would otherwise create serious problems.

The Government of India will celebrate the International Literacy Day tomorrow at Vigyan Bhawan, New Delhi. September 8 was declared as the International literacy Day by UNESCO in 1966. The theme for this year's International Literacy Day is 'Literacy in Digital World'.

Muslims are the "educationally most disadvantaged community" among the minorities, a panel formed by a government-funded agency has said, advocating a three-tier model to tackle the educational backwardness. The panel has recommended that the communities be empowered through a three-tier model of institutions--central schools, community colleges an...

An internal audit by the skills development ministry indicated that nearly 7 per cent of all training centres under the 'skill India' initiative, funded by the government, did not exist